Finance Contract Job Trends in England

Financial
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Finance in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Finance over the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 3 2 2
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 0
Contract jobs citing Finance 7,030 5,501 7,270
As % of all contract jobs in England 19.43% 22.22% 19.09%
As % of the General category 33.49% 35.19% 32.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,536 3,658 5,068
10th Percentile £350 £356 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £592 £575
Median % change year-on-year -9.25% +2.91% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £713 £700
90th Percentile £800 £838 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - -2.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 83 199
10th Percentile £14.82 £17.88 £12.77
25th Percentile £18.54 £21.64 £14.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £35.00 £26.73
Median % change year-on-year -31.93% +30.94% -4.89%
75th Percentile £41.63 £65.50 £38.12
90th Percentile £71.75 £78.68 £53.47
UK median hourly rate £23.66 £35.00 £26.73
% change year-on-year -32.39% +30.94% -4.89%

All General Skills
England

Finance falls under the General Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring general skills in England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for general skills 20,990 15,632 22,320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 58.00% 63.14% 58.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 13,292 9,992 14,576
10th Percentile £300 £300 £266
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £756
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,299 561 1,673
10th Percentile £14.12 £15.06 £13.05
25th Percentile £17.50 £19.91 £15.29
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.21 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +16.19% -20.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £60.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £75.79 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £24.03 £29.07 £25.75
% change year-on-year -17.34% +12.89% -20.77%

Finance
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Finance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Finance job vacancy trend in England

Finance
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Finance

Finance
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Finance in England over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Finance in England

Finance
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Finance within the England region over the 6 months to 10 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months		 Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Live
Jobs
London 0 4,272 £575 -8.00% 1,376
North of England +4 1,016 £475 -0.52% 688
South East -2 583 £500 -7.19% 984
Midlands -1 581 £475 -5.00% 429
North West +5 526 £450 -5.26% 363
Yorkshire 0 444 £513 +2.50% 252
West Midlands 0 377 £500 -7.41% 249
South West -3 324 £512 -2.57% 309
East Midlands 0 199 £450 +5.88% 177
East of England -1 182 £515 -6.36% 226
North East -10 46 £488 +3.72% 83
Finance
UK

Finance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 281 (4.00%) Confluence
2 190 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 76 (1.08%) Apache Spark
4 47 (0.67%) Microsoft Exchange
5 39 (0.55%) Apache
6 37 (0.53%) Apache Airflow
7 27 (0.38%) SAS
8 22 (0.31%) CMS
9 17 (0.24%) Appian
10 16 (0.23%) Ethereum
11 14 (0.20%) CICS
11 14 (0.20%) Oracle Workflow
12 13 (0.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
12 13 (0.18%) HCL Notes
12 13 (0.18%) Hyperledger
13 11 (0.16%) Camunda
13 11 (0.16%) Mendix
14 10 (0.14%) TPMS
15 9 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
16 7 (0.100%) nginx
Applications
1 463 (6.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 230 (3.27%) Microsoft Office
3 178 (2.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 166 (2.36%) Microsoft Project
5 125 (1.78%) MS Visio
6 39 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
7 36 (0.51%) Chatbot
8 16 (0.23%) Trello
9 8 (0.11%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 8 (0.11%) Oracle Smart View
10 5 (0.071%) Photoshop
10 5 (0.071%) Sketch
11 4 (0.057%) Adobe Captivate
11 4 (0.057%) Adobe Illustrator
11 4 (0.057%) InVision
11 4 (0.057%) Notion
12 2 (0.028%) Adobe After Effects
12 2 (0.028%) InDesign
12 2 (0.028%) UXPin
13 1 (0.014%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 252 (3.58%) SAP S/4HANA
2 96 (1.37%) Oracle Payables
3 85 (1.21%) Oracle Receivables
4 66 (0.94%) NetSuite
5 65 (0.92%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 62 (0.88%) Oracle EBS
7 56 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
8 53 (0.75%) SAP FI
9 49 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
10 45 (0.64%) SAP CO
11 41 (0.58%) SAP FI/CO
12 38 (0.54%) Oracle Assets
13 36 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
14 34 (0.48%) Oracle Cash Management
15 33 (0.47%) Oracle EBS R12
16 32 (0.46%) Workday HCM
17 31 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
17 31 (0.44%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
18 27 (0.38%) Aladdin
19 23 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1,056 (15.02%) Azure
2 860 (12.23%) AWS
3 506 (7.20%) Power Platform
4 365 (5.19%) GCP
5 254 (3.61%) Microsoft 365
6 247 (3.51%) SaaS
7 225 (3.20%) Azure DevOps
8 194 (2.76%) Dynamics 365
9 186 (2.65%) GitHub
10 126 (1.79%) Serverless
11 115 (1.64%) OCI
12 113 (1.61%) Entra ID
13 109 (1.55%) Snowflake
14 90 (1.28%) Amazon S3
14 90 (1.28%) Power Automate
15 74 (1.05%) GitHub Actions
16 72 (1.02%) OpenShift
17 69 (0.98%) Azure Data Factory
18 63 (0.90%) Microsoft Copilot
18 63 (0.90%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 130 (1.85%) Firewall
2 87 (1.24%) Network Security
3 60 (0.85%) WAN
4 56 (0.80%) DNS
5 47 (0.67%) VPN
6 44 (0.63%) LAN
7 40 (0.57%) TCP/IP
8 32 (0.46%) Wireless
9 27 (0.38%) SD-WAN
10 26 (0.37%) HTTP
11 25 (0.36%) BGP
12 23 (0.33%) OSPF
12 23 (0.33%) SSL
13 21 (0.30%) Internet
14 20 (0.28%) MPLS
15 19 (0.27%) Multicast
16 17 (0.24%) Cisco ASA
16 17 (0.24%) DHCP
17 14 (0.20%) SSH
17 14 (0.20%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 443 (6.30%) Power BI
2 190 (2.70%) Data Warehouse
3 186 (2.65%) SQL Server
4 184 (2.62%) PostgreSQL
5 126 (1.79%) Tableau
6 120 (1.71%) Metadata
7 109 (1.55%) NoSQL
8 95 (1.35%) Relational Database
9 94 (1.34%) Data Lake
10 75 (1.07%) Oracle Reports
11 73 (1.04%) Big Data
12 63 (0.90%) MongoDB
13 60 (0.85%) Oracle Database
14 50 (0.71%) BigQuery
15 44 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
16 35 (0.50%) Azure SQL Database
16 35 (0.50%) Hadoop
17 34 (0.48%) MySQL
17 34 (0.48%) Power Query
18 33 (0.47%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 566 (8.05%) JIRA
2 209 (2.97%) Jenkins
3 189 (2.69%) Git
4 123 (1.75%) GitLab
5 59 (0.84%) Cucumber
6 55 (0.78%) JUnit
7 39 (0.55%) Selenium
8 38 (0.54%) Sonatype Nexus
9 31 (0.44%) Postman
10 26 (0.37%) Visual Studio
11 25 (0.36%) Bitbucket
12 20 (0.28%) Gradle
13 19 (0.27%) Maven
13 19 (0.27%) MLflow
13 19 (0.27%) REST Assured
14 15 (0.21%) Liquibase
14 15 (0.21%) SonarQube
15 13 (0.18%) JMeter
15 13 (0.18%) SpecFlow
15 13 (0.18%) TeamCity
General
1 2,326 (33.09%) Social Skills
2 1,379 (19.62%) Banking
3 926 (13.17%) Analytical Skills
4 552 (7.85%) Public Sector
5 320 (4.55%) Financial Institution
6 277 (3.94%) Front Office
7 266 (3.78%) Legal
8 265 (3.77%) Marketing
9 244 (3.47%) Investment Banking
10 227 (3.23%) Telecoms
11 223 (3.17%) Manufacturing
12 221 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
13 198 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
14 165 (2.35%) Retail
15 156 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
16 133 (1.89%) Electronics
17 114 (1.62%) General Ledger
18 113 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
19 109 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
20 108 (1.54%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 1,093 (15.55%) Analyst
2 785 (11.17%) Developer
3 733 (10.43%) Senior
4 629 (8.95%) Lead
5 609 (8.66%) Architect
6 585 (8.32%) Business Analyst
7 569 (8.09%) Project Manager
8 488 (6.94%) Consultant
9 254 (3.61%) Solutions Architect
10 180 (2.56%) Data Engineer
11 163 (2.32%) Senior Manager
12 160 (2.28%) Data Analyst
13 154 (2.19%) Programme Manager
14 151 (2.15%) Financial Analyst
15 124 (1.76%) Java Developer
16 123 (1.75%) Delivery Manager
17 119 (1.69%) Software Engineer
18 118 (1.68%) Finance Manager
19 117 (1.66%) Senior Developer
20 115 (1.64%) Senior Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 252 (3.58%) Kafka
2 242 (3.44%) REST
3 193 (2.75%) .NET
4 179 (2.55%) React
5 142 (2.02%) Oracle Fusion
6 137 (1.95%) Middleware
7 124 (1.76%) RESTful
8 118 (1.68%) Spring
9 103 (1.47%) Spring Boot
10 99 (1.41%) AngularJS
10 99 (1.41%) Node.js
11 80 (1.14%) PySpark
12 74 (1.05%) XML
13 73 (1.04%) HTML
14 70 (1.00%) JSON
15 68 (0.97%) CSS
15 68 (0.97%) OAuth
16 67 (0.95%) Pandas
17 65 (0.92%) Redux
17 65 (0.92%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 317 (4.51%) Onboarding
2 280 (3.98%) Product Ownership
3 215 (3.06%) Cloud Native
4 176 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 169 (2.40%) Derivative
5 169 (2.40%) Management Information System
6 142 (2.02%) Fixed Income
7 138 (1.96%) Data Centre
7 138 (1.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 134 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
9 126 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
10 119 (1.69%) Data Structures
11 115 (1.64%) Equities
12 98 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
13 96 (1.37%) Public Cloud
14 78 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
15 75 (1.07%) Virtual Team
16 73 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
17 67 (0.95%) Hedge funds
18 53 (0.75%) Algorithms
Operating Systems
1 281 (4.00%) Linux
2 243 (3.46%) Windows
3 130 (1.85%) Unix
4 59 (0.84%) Windows 10
5 57 (0.81%) Windows Server
6 48 (0.68%) Android
7 40 (0.57%) Mac OS
8 24 (0.34%) Apple iOS
9 14 (0.20%) zOS
10 12 (0.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 11 (0.16%) AIX
12 7 (0.100%) Solaris
12 7 (0.100%) VMS
13 5 (0.071%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
14 4 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
15 3 (0.043%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.014%) CentOS
16 1 (0.014%) Kali Linux
16 1 (0.014%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1,555 (22.12%) Agile
2 1,396 (19.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 1,060 (15.08%) Problem-Solving
4 883 (12.56%) Migration
5 783 (11.14%) DevOps
6 773 (11.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 711 (10.11%) CI/CD
8 705 (10.03%) Analytics
9 701 (9.97%) Business Intelligence
10 696 (9.90%) Project Management
11 669 (9.52%) Continuous Improvement
12 617 (8.78%) ERP
13 582 (8.28%) AI
14 544 (7.74%) Decision-Making
15 543 (7.72%) Roadmaps
16 514 (7.31%) Data Modelling
17 499 (7.10%) Change Management
18 494 (7.03%) Validation
19 490 (6.97%) Project Delivery
20 488 (6.94%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1,033 (14.69%) SQL
2 897 (12.76%) Python
3 495 (7.04%) Java
4 286 (4.07%) C#
5 218 (3.10%) JavaScript
6 174 (2.48%) TypeScript
7 147 (2.09%) PowerShell
8 120 (1.71%) C++
9 76 (1.08%) Go
10 63 (0.90%) PL/SQL
11 58 (0.83%) Bash
12 49 (0.70%) VBA
13 45 (0.64%) T-SQL
14 41 (0.58%) Scala
15 39 (0.55%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 38 (0.54%) R
17 37 (0.53%) Kotlin
18 30 (0.43%) Shell Script
19 26 (0.37%) Rust
20 23 (0.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 697 (9.91%) Degree
2 624 (8.88%) Security Cleared
3 445 (6.33%) SC Cleared
4 166 (2.36%) PMP
5 158 (2.25%) PMI Certification
6 156 (2.22%) Computer Science Degree
7 140 (1.99%) ACCA
8 137 (1.95%) Master's Degree
9 130 (1.85%) CIMA
10 115 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
11 94 (1.34%) CISSP
12 72 (1.02%) DV Cleared
13 65 (0.92%) Azure Certification
14 63 (0.90%) CISM
15 57 (0.81%) AWS Certification
16 34 (0.48%) ISTQB
17 33 (0.47%) Microsoft Certification
18 29 (0.41%) TOGAF Certification
19 28 (0.40%) CBAP
20 25 (0.36%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 360 (5.12%) QA
2 349 (4.96%) Data Quality
3 289 (4.11%) PMO
4 265 (3.77%) GDPR
5 132 (1.88%) NIST
6 125 (1.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 104 (1.48%) SLA
8 103 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 75 (1.07%) IFRS
10 72 (1.02%) PCI DSS
11 64 (0.91%) GRC
12 62 (0.88%) Accessibility
13 52 (0.74%) ISO 20022
14 44 (0.63%) PSD2
15 36 (0.51%) NCSC
15 36 (0.51%) SEPA
16 34 (0.48%) GAAP
16 34 (0.48%) MiFID
17 27 (0.38%) Basel III
17 27 (0.38%) COBIT
System Software
1 296 (4.21%) Docker
2 132 (1.88%) Active Directory
3 53 (0.75%) VMware Infrastructure
4 32 (0.46%) vSphere
5 25 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
6 13 (0.18%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
8 11 (0.16%) GPFS
8 11 (0.16%) NFS
9 10 (0.14%) VMware NSX
10 8 (0.11%) Hyper-V
11 4 (0.057%) HDFS
11 4 (0.057%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.043%) ISA Server
12 3 (0.043%) RACF
12 3 (0.043%) SRDF
12 3 (0.043%) Time Sharing Option
13 2 (0.028%) Firmware
13 2 (0.028%) VMware Workstation
13 2 (0.028%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 364 (5.18%) Kubernetes
2 211 (3.00%) Terraform
3 130 (1.85%) Ansible
4 82 (1.17%) Grafana
5 73 (1.04%) Prometheus
6 61 (0.87%) Microsoft Intune
7 47 (0.67%) SCCM
8 36 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
9 19 (0.27%) vRealize
10 17 (0.24%) FortiGate
10 17 (0.24%) Progress Chef
11 15 (0.21%) Control-M
12 14 (0.20%) Argo
13 13 (0.18%) AirWatch
14 11 (0.16%) Nessus
15 10 (0.14%) Puppet
15 10 (0.14%) RSA Archer
16 9 (0.13%) ITRS Geneos
16 9 (0.13%) vCenter Server
17 8 (0.11%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 915 (13.02%) Microsoft
2 682 (9.70%) SAP
3 600 (8.53%) Oracle
4 265 (3.77%) ServiceNow
5 179 (2.55%) Salesforce
6 171 (2.43%) Databricks
7 165 (2.35%) Google
8 129 (1.83%) Workday
9 128 (1.82%) Splunk
10 125 (1.78%) Cisco
11 111 (1.58%) VMware
12 81 (1.15%) IBM
13 74 (1.05%) Citrix
14 73 (1.04%) CyberArk
15 51 (0.73%) Informatica
15 51 (0.73%) Murex
16 50 (0.71%) Bloomberg
17 48 (0.68%) Ariba
18 47 (0.67%) Dell
19 46 (0.65%) HP
4,086 Finance jobs in England